Isle of Wight hunting trial postponed over “burden of evidence”

Typical bias from the lot on here.

Good to see LACS leading from the front. As promised, prosecutions have followed and convictions will continue to be made.

Regards

Lord_Blairite
 
"As promised, prosecutions have followed"

But not in this case.

Meanwhile the lawyers are going to the High Court over the 'burden of proof'.

What glorious confusion, as this govenment implodes.
 
Of course the only reason there are foxes on the IOW is because the hunters shipped them in in the first place. Badgers as well.

Oh and didn't the person who drove a stake through a horse in Brighton a few years back work for the IOW hunt?

Classy.
 
It was dead, whats your problem? Millions of animals are slaughtered every day, just because some people would rather ignore the truth doesn't mean others do. I'm always around when our pigs get killed, dead animals don't bother me, I deal with them every day as unlike others I feed my dogs what they're built to eat instead of the colourful, wheat full, biscuit c*ap that contains cancer causing E numbers, preservatives, colourants and addatives.

I don't know why anyone would be horrified at a dead animal.

Yes foxes and badgers were shipped over there but the main reason was not hunting...
 
You seriously think there's nothing wrong with driving a stake through a horse's carcass in a street in Brighton?

People wanted to hunt foxes on the IOW, so they shipped them in and hunted them. People still hunt them, in the name of vermin control. Go figure...

Hunters also shipped in the badgers for the same reason. You know, the animals you blame for spreading tb etc.
 
No they did not. Foxes were originally introduced to keep the rising rabbit population down and badgers to keep hedgehog populations down.

It was dead....did it feel pain? Pigs were slaughtered in main street alley ways less than 100 hundred years ago.
 
OK we have an unbridgeable chasm between us: you think it's a brilliant idea to drive a stake through a horse carcass in a Brighton street, I think it's at best pathetic.

Re the IOW you're wrong. This is from the website for the Isle of Wight Foxhounds:

"The Hunt dates from 1845 when the pack was established by a group of gentlemen including Mr Ben Cotton and Mr Henry Nunn. [...] It is only from this date that the history of the Isle of Wight Fox-Hounds dates. That there is any foxhunting at all in the Isle is due to the energy and perseverance of Mr. Ben Cotton, who did so much to stock the country with foxes, in which difficult task he was ably assisted by Mr. Henry Nunn. [...] However, whatever the difficulty, Mr Cotton got his country stocked with foxes at last, and it is greatly to his credit that he managed to do so, for as has been shown, his task was no light one. And it should be pointed out that the difficult task would have been an impossible one had it not been for the sportsmanlike spirit which prevailed in the island and which made everyone pull together in the laudable object of providing for it the best sport possible. Having got a stock of foxes into the country the next thing was to get a pack of hounds into the country to hunt them."
 
Yeap and we have red deer on Exmoor and the Quantocks because the hunt kept them going.

A wild animal population benefits from being considered to be a quarry rather than just a pest.
 
That's interesting .....

I'd always thought foxes had been re-introduced onto the Island (now, of course, a requirement under European law), but reading Reggie's post, it's obvious the hunting interests persuaded the shooting interests not to shoot ALL the foxes.

Hat's off to our anti friend for pointing out the conservation benefits of hunting, already known to so many of us.
 
Er no, "the hunting interests" did no such thing. They did not persuade the "shooting interests" not the shoot all the foxes because prior to the hunt there were no foxes around. What they in fact did was literally ship the foxes in, populate the island with them and then kill them in the name of sport. At least in those days they were honest about what they did. Nowadays we have all this namby-pamby politically-correct verbiage about "the conservation benefits of hunting" blah blah bullshit bullshit. Be a man! Say it like it is! Pah!!!
 
Reginald,

Sadly you are wasting your time with this uneducated rabble. ;-)

They simply cannot see the wood for the trees. It is one excuse after another. The Hunting Fraternity have had to move with the times. As people have become wiser to them and alot of the barbarity that takes place, the Fraternity has had to rename its activities accordingly.

The Bloodsports Alliance became the Countryside Alliance - Bloodsports became Coursing and Conservational or Land Management. The Nature of the BEAST Never Changes.

Regards
 
SevernMusclehead,

Because people used to kill Pigs in alley ways 100 years ago, does that really mean that driving a stake through a dead horse is acceptable???

"It was dead, whats the problem?" you bleat. Is it ok if we use your body in the same way one day? Or what about your immediate relatives or pets? Sadly, you have no respect for the dead, not if it is an animal at least...

As we know, many of the more psychotic serial killers had in the past tortured or mistreated animals in some way. Very telling with regards you and yours one would have thought.

Regards
 
"As we know, many of the more psychotic serial killers had in the past tortured or mistreated animals in some way. Very telling with regards you and yours one would have thought. "

You are right.

Peter sutcliffe used to be a whipper in for the DSSH.

Come to think of it, Harold Shipman used run the Venus at Challacombe !

Spooky !!!
 
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